The Best Anime Direct Download Distro Sites… IMHO Only
Well, that’s one (relatively) long title, so I hope it makes sense. Just to make sure I don’t get flamed in the comments or via email, here’s the criteria I used to pick the sites in this list:
- I use them almost everyday. Yeah, me/mua/watashi, so this list is certainly going to involve some degree of subjectivity, even if I always try to judge objectively!
- They are fast. I get a minimum of 200 KB/s speeds, and an average of 400 KB/s on these sites, even during rush hours. Some of these sites can push episodes to me at above 1 MB/s, even if they are US servers serving to poor little me in London. These speeds are based on a approximately 15-20 mbit (edu) connection.
- They update frequently with the latest episodes, hence the distro classification.
- They are mostly hassle-free, with free registration being the biggest hassle involved.
And in no particular order, the sites are:
- Anikei.com: As reviewed earlier, this site is fast (on both free servers, and the donor server too BTW), and I can normally grab a recently released episode from this site not very long (tens of minutes to a couple of hours) after its release. I tend to grab manga from Anikei as well.
- Animorc.net: The same thing here. I tend to get even faster speeds here compared to Anikei, but that’s probably because Animorc caps the no. of download slots available (still more than enough slots though). Again, the latest episodes are available very quickly, and for me, if I can’t find something on Anikei yet, it tends to be available on Animorc already, and vice versa.
- Rorikonjyanai/404 Not Found: I definitely get the fastest speeds from this site (up to 1.7 MB/sec so far on DDL3), but while they host more anime compared to either of the sites above, update frequency is lower. So, if there’s a recent series I happened to skip, this tends to be the first place I go to to get myself updated.
- fourzerofour: Not only does fourzerofour.us give me great speeds, the latest episodes are also available very quickly after release (e.g. I got Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny Ep. 10 here before it was available from the rest of the sites above). It’s a bit of pain that download accelerators are not officially supported, but I haven’t found it to be an issue so far.
Of course, there are times when some newly-released episodes from a particular series are not available on these sites even after 24 hours, e.g. I still can’t find Manabi Straight Episode 10 on any of these sites yet, but such cases tend to be pretty rare, and you can always torrent or subscribe to a paid server like [Download] Anime if you really need your anime fix ASAP.
Again, this list is just my list. What about you guys? Which anime direct download sites do you frequent for the latest anime episodes?
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May 8th, 2007 15:32
Nice~ Thanks a lot for the resources~!
May 10th, 2007 14:49
same with me, always open those 4 site everyday. definitely great
fansub.tv quite good too with new releases, too bad the self service d/l don’t last long or sometimes they don’t have it
May 11th, 2007 12:48
LMFAO, exactly the same as my bookmark tool bar folder except that animorc is first. I have MrPC’s added too since the odd time he’s the fastest at updating. Oh, and fansub.tv for the releases that none of these sites upload.
May 15th, 2007 21:57
thanks so much for the websites! really helped a lot. and this is a bit random, but when you said “me/mua/watashi” I think the mua part should be spelled “moi.” ^ ^
May 23rd, 2007 18:57
Fansub.tv is great but the DL is really slow so i wouldnt count on it.
for me i ususally watch online anime so crunchyroll is the best for me
May 26th, 2007 13:03
lately, adc seems to update their ongoing anime really fast
May 26th, 2007 16:41
i hate mrpc.us due to the ads
starfreeze.com is the one i use the most
fourzerofour got taken off line after their hoster stopped them from hosting anime i dont know ifthey will be back online but i used them a lot too
May 26th, 2007 22:30
I use the same list of sites, actually. >___>
May 29th, 2007 08:21
Thanks for some of the suggestions. I’ll see whether this list will need updating any time soon.
June 28th, 2007 20:59
anikei.com has been down for a few days, does anyone have info on this or is it just me?
June 29th, 2007 00:02
hmm.. I’m also wondering what happen to anikei…. access is unavailable for about 3days now-_-..
June 29th, 2007 03:43
I too cannot access to anikei.com.No anikei, no nipponsei T^T
June 29th, 2007 16:35
Same here… Sad tough… I hope it won’t shut down.
Anikei Ganbate!!
June 29th, 2007 16:46
i am having the same problem as u guyz it seems their server is down for a while now about 5 days.
still not up yet i hope to see them again
June 30th, 2007 03:37
Yeah, I hope anikei will have the backup media because Usually their media will be gone or maybe something when the site is crash or down….
June 30th, 2007 06:32
I see that the stuff anikei post in the lurk channel is still available through IRC and also updated with new manga chapters……but no direct download yet.
June 30th, 2007 08:33
Same here. Hope can see them again.
July 1st, 2007 06:48
Anikei.com is down because of a hard-disc failure, should be back up soon.
visit anikei@rizon
July 1st, 2007 08:08
That’s the best reply I see for this entire week.
July 4th, 2007 17:07
@Drew-chan
Well, 1 month I can bear without Anikei…
The sooner it’s up, the better…
Without Anikei is like without my brothers and sisters XD~
July 4th, 2007 22:53
thx for info man
July 6th, 2007 16:30
It looks like you haven’t finished setting up a Wordpress plug-in.
>___>
“It sounds like SK2 has recently been updated on this blog. But not fully configured. You MUST visit Spam Karma’s admin page at least once before letting it filter your comments (chaos may ensue otherwise).”
July 8th, 2007 22:02
thank god its just a hard disk.. good thing they will be back up
July 16th, 2007 20:42
Woohoo, got a message from the site. (anikei)
“HD failure. Site will be coming back soon”
Can’t wait!!!
July 25th, 2007 02:23
apparently lolipower (Rorikonjyanai/404 Not Found) is down? does anyone have any news?
July 25th, 2007 19:50
I hate fourzerofour.Why they dun put the download link.What a worse.Many problem.
July 26th, 2007 19:04
A good site up to a week ago was everyanime.com. They are having some type of technical problems and are not fully functional.
September 13th, 2008 22:50
Nice list